Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The key Ottoman innovations were: (1) While in traditional Islamic law the permission of a tribal leader or the state was required to develop unused land and thus acquire it as productive land ("miri"), [6] the Land Code now even "rewarded" unauthorized land development: [7] land that had been made productive could be retroactively registered ...
In Australia, Of Dirt and Grace: Live from the Land debuted at number twelve on the ARIA Albums Chart, marking it as the twenty-ninth Top 50 chart entry for a Hillsong album. [13] The following week, the album reached a new peak at number eight, thus becoming the twenty-first top 10 entry for a Hillsong album. [14]
Unowned property includes tangible, physical things that are capable of being reduced to being property owned by a person but are not owned by anyone. Bona vacantia (Latin for "ownerless goods") is a legal concept associated with the unowned property, which exists in various jurisdictions, with a consequently varying application, but with origins mostly in English law.
Generally speaking, only a few regions of the dry-land part of the Earth are so remote or have such a harsh climate that no one uses those areas for even part of the year. These places are tiny islands, the driest part of large deserts, very high mountains, and ice caps.
These medieval land terms include the following: a burgage, a plot of land rented from a lord or king; a hide: the hide, from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "family", was, in the early medieval period, a land-holding that was considered sufficient to support a family. This was equivalent to 60 to 120 acres depending on the quality of the land ...
Frost, Attwood and others argue that even though the term terra nullius was not used in the eighteenth century, there was widespread acceptance of the concept that a state could acquire territory through occupation of land that was not already under sovereignty and was uninhabited or inhabited by peoples who had not developed permanent ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Bust of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, by F. Winter, 1886. In the collection of the Dorset Museum, Dorchester. "A land without a people for a people without a land" is a widely cited phrase associated with the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Its historicity and significance are a ...
The tenancy of a lordship is not to be confused with land ownership. It was an estate in land, not land per se.Although lords of the manor generally owned property within a lordship (often substantial amounts), it was possible for a lord not to own any property at all within his own lordship.